I am done being scared!

Hubby and I had a free afternoon to ourselves yesterday so we decided to catch a movie, something we don't get to do that often. We were going to see Indiana Jones, but everyone we know said that it was kinda disappointing. My husband wasn't into SATC and I hate Adam Sandler. So we saw the Strangers. The ads for it made it look good and scary and the movie didn't disappoint. I was under my husbands arm the entire movie. Toward the ending it got slow, but the end made up for it. In one word the moving was disturbing. In the beginning it says that its based on real events and I think that is what made it so crazy.  When we got home my husband looked it up to see how real it was and found out that a lot of the plot was real, but that some of the elements were derived from the directors childhood experiences. What was the most disturbing is that the real crime was was more grizzly and it involved children I am glad that the movie didn't go there because that is a deal breaker of me, I can't watch movies where children are hurt. Needless to say I was scared all night!

That got me to thinking, as I have gotten older I realized that there are several things that we do as teenagers and young adults that we just don't deal with as we get older. For instance, for years I was always so amped to go to amusement parks and ride the roller coasters and I loved it. But when I was about 25 I went to six flags and rode the Superman ride and before it took off, I wondered why I was even on this damed thing. I realized then that I didn't really like roller coasters and I never really did. All I do is close my eyes and scream and I didn't every really enjoy them. So I haven't gone on one since and I will probably never ride one again. That is the same way that I feel about scary movies, I am done with them. I get too scared to even enjoy them. 

So I am done being scared.....at least of horror flicks and roller coasters. Now I just have to stop being afraid of everything else!